Sorry for jumping in late, and I will preface this by saying I'm not a programmer, but... The suggestion to combine the worlds seems to have merit, we already have reports in season that compare the relative strengths of teams and rank them a multitude of ways. Since we are just dealing with data, how hard would it be to import the data from teams in differnt leagues and use a relatively simplified 'tie breaker' type system for ranking for draft spots, etc. In order to keep playing, wouldn't anyone rather have a season start than wait for weeks, and deal with the potential of drafting a spot or two worse than you would have? Also the obvious tankers could all be put in the same world. I would find that amusing to see how many owners who built to tank, would be beside themselves winning 70 to 85 games.

I recommend the combination because I get partial to the team I own, I know the players names and while I also know they aren't real (no big head posters in my house of my own team, yet . If my whole team could be moved, I wouldn't really have an issue.

So is it really that big a problem? Also how hard would it be to have a little .gif game or play highlights? Heck even graphics of a game on par with the espn live game cast would be an improvement. I'd like that as an option to just reading the game flow. It could be set to only display results pitches as well. Any thoughts?

One Friday down and the total is higher. Only one more world at 16, but the total number of openings has climbed all the way to 79.

One thing to be aware of though is that three of these worlds have 8 or more openings. IMO, any world that loses 25% or more of their owners in one season is a problem world and should be disregarded when trying to judge the condition of HBD as a whole.

If you disregard the 28 openings in those three worlds, you are down to 13 worlds with 51 openings, which is slightly better than a week ago.

Posted by smoelheim on 2/2/2013 11:52:00 AM (view original):Looks like the average number of openings in worlds that were filled during "The Great Promo Code / Alias Creation of 2012" is between 9 and 10.

In the last couple of days, we've jumped from 70ish openings to 120, with 3 more worlds to roll today,